Mercy Found Me

The Threshing Floor I can't seem to keep my mind off the threshing floor for the last couple of weeks. What happens at the threshing floor? At the threshing floor you’ll find the beautiful and difficult. You’ll find a forever home in Jesus, but also a death-to-the-life experience like you’ve never known. As you seek God at the threshing floor He hears and responds, but the outcome requires obedience of His unwavering expectations. At the threshing floor you repent and lay down your life. This is not a one-time thing, but a daily journey of learning to live in obedience. It is not a life of cheap grace without the cross. At the threshing floor we celebrate. He paid the price for our freedom. We no longer have to live in exile, but receive victory through the blood of Jesus. And this brings us back to the difficult, because we must go through the fire. I don’t know about you, but I keep crawling down off the altar. In our humanness, it’s easy to forget it’s in the sac...

Absalom As I was going through my study today in 1 Corinthians 5 meditating on what Paul termed as grave sin found in the church at Corinth. "...and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife..hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh..." the holy spirit brought to my remeberance the story of other bible characters that had also committed this heinous act before and the consequences that befell them.Today we look at the most handsome man in all Israel Absalom. David's son. Absalom was David’s third son, after Amnon and Daniel. At the time of his plot to overthrown his father, Absalom was probably the most likely next king. Amnon, the firstborn, was dead; Daniel Abigail's son might not have survived childhood (or he died in a later battle) since he wasn’t mentioned beyond having been born to David in Hebron (see 1 Chronicles 3:1-9). So Absalom didn’t have to plot for the throne. He could have just wai...

T o be quickly rich without any labor, this is the dream of all sinners. That is the foundation of gambling. Gambling – definition: To play a game for money or property; to bet, to take a chance, to risk on an uncertain outcome; to expose yourself to danger and to proceed in the face of it. The attraction of gambling is entertainment and the love of money. Both are very addictive strongholds of Satan. The victims are people who are lazy, covetous, foolish and ambitious at the same time. That combination is deadly. Gambling is a scheme to escape labor, but in reality, gambling is an evil spirit that kills and destroys. Recently a young lady approached me and said “Tabby I really need your prayers. I have a gambling problem. And I need to stop before this makes me crazy. I have taken loans from everywhere. I even went back home and sold a cow. I have debts surrounding me right, left and center as we speak because I take loans so as to gamble. I am working but ...